ApacheCon Europe 2005 Speakers

Noel Bergman

Noel J Bergman's background in object-oriented
programming spans close to 25 years, including participation
on the original CORBA and Common Object Services Task
Forces. Noel is a Member of the Apache Software
Foundation, where he participates on various projects and the
infrastructure team; helps in Community building; and is
the Apache Incubator PMC Chair. Noel's presentations
are intended to introduce attendees to the various
technologies, and bring them up to speed. The goal is to
enable attendees to immediately benefit from such
technologies in their own projects.

Slava Bizyayev

Slava Bizyayev earned his Ph.D. in Applied Geophysics
from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1980. His
scientific profile is available at
http://users.outlook.net/~sbizyaye/scientific_profile.html

In open
source community Slava is known mainly as an author of
Dynagzip Project, on-line tutorial Web
Content Compression FAQ, and associated software available on
CPAN.

Rich Bowen

Rich Bowen is the Web Database Programmer for Asbury
College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Rich is the author of
Apache Cookbook and The Definitive Guide to Apache
mod_rewrite. He is a member of the Apache documentation project
and of the Apache Software Foundation.

Marcus Börger

Marcus Börger is a freelancer located in Germany and
is specialized on C/C++, Databases, UML, XML and of
course PHP. To the PHP community he is also known as helly.
He is one of the core developers and focused on the
new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Marcus
'hacks' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years now
and is currently working for Ford Motor Company.

Emmanuel Cecchet

Emmanuel Cecchet has a Ph.D. from Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He contributed to the
DynaServer project at Rice University to study the
design of scalable, high-performance and highly available
e-business servers. After leaving Rice, he led a team at
INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for
large scale data servers. In 2005, Emmanuel joined
Continuent where he now servers as Chief Scientific
Officer. Emmanuel was Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb open
source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project
(http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org). He now leads
Continuent.org and the Sequoia project
(http://sequoia.continuent.org)

Ugo Cei

Dr. Ugo Cei is Principal Consultant at Sourcesense,
Europe’s leading Open Source systems integrator. He has
more than 15 years' expertise in enterprise software
architecture development using Web- and Java-based
technologies. His passion for Open Source was ignited when
curiosity caused him to install a Linux distribution
received in error; today he is an active committer and
Project Management Committee member on several initiatives
at the Apache Software Foundation. He is a regular
presenter at Open Source events and conferences, such as
OSCON, RailsConf, and ApacheCon. Cei holds a Ph.D in
Informatics Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy.

Eran Chinthaka

Ken Coar

Ken Coar is a director and vice president of the
Apache Software Foundation, a director and vice president of
the Open Software Initiative, and a Senior Software
Engineer with IBM. He has over two decades of experience
with software engineering and system administration.
Ken has worked with the Web since 1992, and in addition
to working on Apache and PHP he was one of the authors
of RFC 3874 (the CGI specification). He is the author of
'Apache Server for Dummies', a lead
author of 'Apache Server Unleashed', and a co-author of 'Apache
Cookbook'.

John Coggeshall

John Coggeshall is the Chief Technology Officer at
Automotive Computer Services, specializing in building Web
2.0 applications for the auto industry. He got started
with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published
books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with
some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams
Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active
contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy
extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board,
and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences
worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an
excellent resource for any PHP developer.

Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper has a 15-year history in the software
industry and has long been an advocate for transparent
development methodologies. Danese worked for six years at
Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth of
the various open source projects sponsored by Sun
(including OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She
was Sun's Chief Open Source Evangelist and founded
Sun's Open Source Programs Office. She has unique
experience implementing open source projects from within a large
proprietary company. She joined the OSI Board in
December 2001 and currently serves as Secretary & Treasurer.
As of March 2005 Danese has joined Intel to advise on
open source projects, investment and support. Danese
has been active in Apache for many years, and was voted
into membership in 2007. She speaks internationally on
Open Source and Licensing issues.

Aaron Crane

Aaron Crane has been using the Apache web server to
deploy and maintain web sites since 1995. For several
years he was based in Leeds, working as a trainer,
consultant, and software developer. He has now settled in
Edinburgh, where he is Technical Overlord for The Register,
the UK's leading IT news site.

Dan Debrunner

Daniel Debrunner is a Senior Technical Staff Member
with IBM's Data Management division in San Francisco,
California. For the past eight years he has been the
architect for the Cloudscape database engine, guiding the
technology from a startup company through two
acquisitions to wide deployment in IBM's products and middleware.
Now he is looking forward to being a participant in the
Apache open source community that will drive Derby.
Daniel has worked on the internals of number of
additional database engines at Sybase, Illustra and Informix.
Prior to coming to the United States Daniel worked for a
London based Unix systems company and received a MA in
Physics from the University of Oxford.

Tobias Eggendorfer

Tobias Eggendorfer has been working as a freelance
IT-Consultant and Software-Developer since 1999. He
teaches at Munich-Business-School. Currently he is
researching spam and techniques to prevent spam from hitting his
spam-filter.

Lars Eilebrecht

Lars is co-founder and member of The Apache Software
Foundation, and started contributing to the Apache web
server project in 1997. In addition, he is the Vice
President of the Conference Planning Committee, a member of
the Apache security team, and the Apache public
relations committee. He has a degree in computer engineering
from the University of Siegen, Germany, where he wrote
his first book about the Apache web server. He held
various senior engineering, consulting and management
positions at various ISPs, mobile network providers and
software development companies. Lars is also a member of
the International Financial Cryptography Association.
Currently he is working as a senior security officer for
a software development company in Munich specializing
in cryptographic research and development, and the
operation of highly secure data centers.

Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005
as the first software engineer hired in the Chicago
office. Brian leads Google's Chicago engineering efforts
and also serves as engineering manager for Google Code
and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts.
Prior to joining Google, Brian was a senior software
engineer on the version control team at CollabNet,
working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also worked
at Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their
professional services division, developing both client and web
applications for Apple's largest corporate customers.
Brian has been an active open source contributor for
over ten years. He became a core Subversion developer in
2000, and then the lead developer of the cvs2svn
utility. He was nominated as a member of the Apache Software
Foundation in 2002 and spent two years as the ASF's VP
of Public Relations. Brian has written numerous
articles and given many presentations on a wide variety of
subjects from version control to software development,
including co-writing "Version Control with Subversion" as
well as chapters for "Unix in a Nutshell" and "Linux
in a Nutshell." Personal information can be found at
http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/

Santiago Gala

Santiago Gala is a member of the Apache Software
Foundation, and VP of the Apache Portals project. He owns
High Sierra Technology, dedicated to consultancy and
development in telecommunications and software
technologies. URL:
http://www.hisitech.com/. Teaches AI and Software Engineering in
the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, and blogs in Spanish

Ross Gardler

In recent years Ross has been active in Computer
Science research (UK and West Indies), has lectured in
Computer Science and Management (West Indies) and has been a
freelance contractor across the UK. He is currently a
Research Officer with OSS Watch at Oxford University
and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Christoph Goller

Christoph Goller got his Ph.D in computer science from
the Technical University of Munich where he worked in
several research projects on machine learning and
neural networks. He worked for Lernout & Hauspie for several
years and is now one of the driving forces behind
Intrafind Software AG (www.intrafind.de), a German company
specialized on full-text search and text mining. During
the last two years he has become one of the core
Lucene developers and he is a PMC member of the new Lucene
top-level project.

Zak Greant

Zak Greant is a technical evangelist, author and
programmer whose deep and constant love of Free Software and
Open Source is turning him into a penguin. The only
visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of
blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to
feather growth) and a growing preference for raw fish.
When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he
works at Foo Associates where his suit name is
"Founder and Chief Strategist".

Christian Gross

Christian Gross is a Trainer / Mentor interested in
all aspects of Software. He is especially interested in
Open Source technologies (Apache, XML, MySQL, Mono,
Mozilla). His thirst for everything computing started in
High School, when on a Commodore Pet he wrote two lines
of BASIC code; 10 Print "Cool" 20 Goto 10. Of late
Christian has authored three books; Applied Software
Engineering with Apache Jakarta Commons, and Open Source for
Windows Administrators.
Christian has spoken at various conferences such as
ApacheCon, Software Development, JAX, among others.

Harrie Hazewinkel

Harrie currently is a developer of the Sync4j group.
Sync4j is the open-source mobile application framework
which is based on SyncML and builds upon his experience
building an Enterprise quality Web-based Calendar
server. He also maintains the SNMP module for PHP and is the
author of the SNMP module for Apache, an extension for
retrieving and managing the status of an Apache Web
server via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
He was also co-editor of the WWW-MIB (RFC 2594)
defined in the System Application MIB working group of the
IETF.

Chathura Herath

Chathura Herath graduated from University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka in Computer Science and Engineering with
First class honors. He has been active in the area of web
services and revealed a great deal of interest in open
source development. He is affiliated with the Lanka
Software Foundation, Sri Lanka, a non profit organization
promoting open source software. He was an initial
committer of the EWS, Apache project which is an
implementation of the JSR109, which is an effort to integrate the
SOAP stack with the J2EE protocol stack. EWS presently
provides the web services stack to the Apache Geronimo
J2EE container. He co-authored the paper “Enterprise
Web Services” which is based on the design experience of
EWS project. His current work involves the architecting
and developing of Apache Axis2, which is the next
version of the highly influential Apache Axis project.
Axis2 is designed with high performance in mind while
giving inbuilt support for key Web Service specifications
such as addressing, MTOM, Asynchronous Messaging, etc.

Nick Kew

A veteran systems and software developer, with a
longstanding enthusiasm for the potential of an information
infrastructure to transform our lives. In addition to
running my own company, WebThing Ltd, I am currently
involved with W3C as invited expert and with Apache as a
developer. Apart from my apache.org page
http://www.apache.org/~niq/, my websites relevant to Apache are
apache.webthing.com (many modules available) and
www.apachetutor.org (tutorials for developers). I am also working
on a book on developing Apache modules, to be published
around the end of 2005.

Jan Kneschke

Jan Kneschke started as web-developer and
system-administrator for the
NetUSE AG, Kiel, Germany with the main focus on PHP,
LDAP and Solaris.
After he finished his studies in electical engineering
he founded
incremental.de to give his knowledge in
high-performance,
network-related software a new ground.
Even if he works works as developer and consultant for
MySQL AB,
Uppsala, Sweden he still invests his free time in
lighttpd, a free, high
performance, secure and full-featured web-server.

Changshin Lee

Changshin Lee (a.k.a. Ias) is a member of Apache Web
Services PMC and committer of Axis, Beehive, EWS, JaxMe,
and Mirae projects. He is also participating in JSR
261 JAX-WSA 1.0 EGs to stand for Tmax Soft. He translated
books such as Java Servlet Programming (Jason Hunter)
and Contributing to Eclipse (Erich Gamma and Kent Beck)
into Korean.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Daniel Lopez is President and CTO of BitRock, a
company building multiplatform installation and management
tools with a focus on open source. He is the original
author of the mod_mono Apache module, the Comanche
configuration tool, a variety of Linux and Apache related
howtos and of the book "Teach Yourself Apache 2" from SAMS
publishing.

Steve Loughran

Steve Loughran is a researcher at HP Laboratories ,
Bristol, UK, exploring the challenges of
large-scale system deployment, especially that of
testing them to destruction.
He an Apache member and a committer on the Apache
Ant project. He is the author Ant in Action (Manning
Press, 2007)

Martin Marinschek

Martin has been developing web applications with
JavaServer Faces since before the first version of the
standard was released, and was one of the first committers
to Apache MyFaces. He teaches using MyFaces for the
development of web applications at universities in Vienna
and uses MyFaces in projects at Irian
(http://www.irian.at), a web consulting and development company.

Brian McCallister

Brian McCallister is a programmery kind of person who
loves that folks are willing to pay him to write code.
He works as a Software Architect at Ning, a platform
for building your own social websites. Brian has worked
variously as a programmer, technical writer, and systems
administrator for over a decade on projects ranging
from telecommunications GIS systems to loom (weaving)
control software, and as an English teacher and canoing
guide to boot. He is proud to be a Member of the Apache
Software Foundation, and serves as the Chair of the
Apache ActiveMQ Project.

Tom McQueeney

Tom McQueeney is a
software architect for a consulting company in the
United States and has more than 10 years of software
development experience. He is the author of the upcoming
book Geronimo Live to be published in July by SourceBeat
Publishing, and a contributor to "Apache Axis Live" by
James Goodwill. In 2004, he served as president of the
Denver Java Users Group.

Dr. Horst Mehrländer

Dr. Mehrländer's political career began 1968 when he
joined the Federal Ministry of Economics. Since 1996 Dr.
Mehrländer is the State Secretary of the Ministry of
Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg.
See his official homepage for
further information.

Jeremias Märki

Jeremias Märki is an independent software developer
and consultant, living in Lucerne, Switzerland. He
concentrates mainly on document production and document
management. He is an Apache member, committer in the Apache
FOP project and PMC chair of the Apache XML Graphics
project.

Brad Nicholes

Brad Nicholes is a member of the Apache Software
Foundation and is currently working as a Senior Software
Engineer for Novell, Inc. He has been a committer on the
HTTPD and APR projects since 2000 primarily working in
the areas of
authentication and authorization as well as porting,
maintaining and supporting the Apache HTTPD server on
the NetWare platform. He is also a contributor or
maintainer of various other Open Source projects such as the
OMC-Project, Ganglia Project and mod_eDir. Brad
attended school at the University of Utah and Brigham Young
University and holds a degree in Computer Science.

Jason Purdy

Jason Purdy is the IT Manager of Journalistic, Inc.,
publisher of the award-winning publications QSR Magazine
and Fine Books & Collections Magazine, as well as
other online initiatives. He is responsible for helping to
formulate business plans, oversee and help implement
the necessary applications as well as perform
post-mortems to evaluate success and next steps. Jason earned
his BS in Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science) at
UNC-Chapel Hill and has had a varied career track, working
with a .com startup (AuctionRover.com), small
companies (Stingray/Rogue Wave Software, Goto.com) and large
(Trilogy, IBM and Data General). Jason lives in Apex, NC
with his wife, Casey and daughters, Meredith and
Eleanor.

Gianugo Rabellino

Gianugo Rabellino is Chief Executive Officer of
Sourcesense, Europe's leading Open Source systems integrator.
He has been at the forefront of the Open Source
movement in Europe, founding the first official Italian Linux
organization in 1994, and launching Orixo, the
consortium of European Open Source companies. A Member of the
Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Rabellino serves as
Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management
Committee, is a committer on several ASF projects
including Cocoon, Xindice, and Jackrabbit, as well as mentor of
the River project currently in development at the ASF
Incubator. His highly charismatic presentations on
topics such as Enterprise Open Source adoption,
next-generation opportunities in Open Source, and building Open
Development communities draws enthusiastic audiences at
all levels at industry-leading events including JavaOne,
Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, and
ApacheCon.

Ajith Ranabahu

Ajith is one of the major committers for the Apcahe
Axis2 project and has been working on Web service based
projects for the past 4 years. His technical expertise
is majorly in Web services and XML processing
technologies.
Ajith started his open source activities as one of the
core developers for Apache Axis2 while he was at Lanka
Software Foundation and now works for WSO2
(http://www..wso2.com) sharing his time between Axis, synapse and
other opensource projects.

Derick Rethans

Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related
problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to
the PHP project, including the mcrypt extension, bug
fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as
developer for eZ systems A.S.. In his spare time he
likes to work on SRM: Script Running Machine and Xdebug,
photography and travel. You can reach him at dr@ez.no

Georg Richter

Georg Richter is the author of PHP's mysql extensions.
He works for MySQL AB as a Senior Developer (SAP R/3
adaption, PHP's mysql extensions, Connector/OO.org),
contributes code to various Open Source projects and is a
member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Besides contributing code, Georg is also involved into
the organisation of various events, like LinuxTag
(since 1999) or MySQL ComCon Europe.

Jim Rivera

Jim is a Director of Technology with BEA Systems. In
this role, Jim is responsible for driving adoption of
BEA technology within the technical communities
world-wide. Jim joined BEA in 1999 and was lead Technical
Product Manager for the BEA WebLogic Server 6, 7, and 8
releases. In this role, Jim was responsible for the strategy
and roadmap for various components of the server
including EJB, Web Services, XML, and clustering. He has
over 13 years of experience in software development,
strategy, marketing, and electrical engineering.

Gregor J. Rothfuss

Gregor is COO of Wyona, an Open Source Content
Management consultancy with offices in Boston and Zurich. He
is an Apache Lenya comitter, co-founder of the Open
Source Content Managment Organization (OSCOM) and a
founding member of the Digital Development Foundation (DDF).
In the past, Gregor has been involved with Postnuke and
was on the founding Project Management Comittee for the
Xaraya CMS project. He was also former president of
the Association of Students in Computer Science at the
University of Zurich.

Wilfredo Sanchez

Wilfredo Sánchez is a graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, after which he co-founded an
Internet publishing company, Agora Technology Group, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He then worked on enabling
electronic commerce and dynamic applications via the world
wide web at Disney Online in North Hollywood,
California. Wilfredo is presently a senior software engineer
at Apple in Cupertino, California. He was worked on the
BSD subsystem in Mac OS X as a member of the Core
Operating System group, and as open source engineering lead
at Apple. He later became part of the team that built
and launched the iTunes Music Store, and is presently
the technical lead for iCal Server, which the
calendaring solution in Mac OS X Server, and is available as
open source at http://www.calendarserver.org/. Wilfredo
is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a
contributor to various open source projects.

Torsten Schlabach

Torsten Schlabach is an IT and management consultant
currently especially interested in the usage of Linux /
J2EE / XML technologies for collaborative electronic
publishing purposes.
Torsten has more than 15 years of overall experience
in the IT industry. He has been working for a number of
well known companies including General Electric and
T-Mobile, the mobile arm of Deutsche Telekom AG.
Besides his IT knowledge Torsten has attended
management education at GE Crottonville, GE's corporate
University in New York and finished a General Management
Programme with INSEAD.
Aside from his current consulting assignment in
Germany he is serving as the Interim CEO for PAIWASTOON
Networking Services Ltd, a Kabul, Afghanistan, based
Internet start-up.
Torsten is an active commiter to the Apache Lenya
project.

Theo Schlossnagle

Theo
Schlossnagle is a Principal Consultant at OmniTI Computer Consulting where he
designs and implements scalable solutions for highly
trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound,
scalable architectural engineering. He is author of
Scalable Internet Architecture published by Sams.
Theo is the author and maintainer of the mod_backhand
load-balancing module for Apache, an author and maintainer
of the Backhand
Project and an active participant in a plethora of open
source projects.

Cliff has served as Apache's Vice President for Legal
Affairs since 2005 and has provided licensing and legal
policy assistance to other leading open source
organizations, such as the Eclipse Foundation, Free Software
Foundation, Open Source Initiative, and ObjectWeb
Consortium. He has consulted for numerous small and large
software companies throughout Europe, North America, and
the Middle East on intellectual property issues,
privacy policies, export controls, open source business
strategy, and community development. Cliff also serves on
Apache's Board of Directors and on the project
management committees for both Apache’s Incubator project and
Eclipse’s Technology project, where he helps oversee and
assist new projects to each organization.

Nicolas Schmidt

Nicolas Schmidt is a Senior Software Engineer for Netcetera
AG in Zürich, Switzerland. He has 7 years of
experience in various IT projects for customers in the
industrial and financial sectors. Mainly using tcl/websh and
j2ee technologies. Bevore that, he worked as a
geographic researcher and GIS-specialist for Navigation
Technologies Europe. He recieved his M.D. at the Department of
Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland in 1995.

Henning Schmiedehausen

Henning Schmiedehausen is a team member on a number of
Apache Java projects. He works as a freelance
consultant, architect and software developer using the J2EE
platform and admits under torture that he can program in
PHP and perl. When not sitting in front of a computer,
Henning enjoys traveling with his wife around the world,
sports (both active and passive) and moonlights as a
11th level barbarian at his local D&D group. He
currently has the pleasure of serving as a board member and a
director of the Apache Software Foundation.

Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett
is an internationally recognized expert in the field of
PHP security and the founder and President of Brain Bulb, a PHP
consultancy that offers a variety of services to clients around
the world.

Chris is a leader in the PHP
community, and his involvement includes being the founder of the
PHP Security
Consortium, the founder of PHPCommunity.org, a member of the Zend PHP Advisory
Board, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification.

Leo Simons

Leo Simons is a Dutch student and software developer.
He has been working on a variety of Apache projects for
most of his adult life, acting as committer, mentor,
Vice President, documentation author or sysadmin. Proud
to be an ASF member, he is currently spending most of
his time as one of the main developers of Apache Gump
and in his role as member of the ASF Infrastructure Team.

Ferdinand Soethe

Ferdinand Soethe is a Committer and PMC member of the
Apache Forrest project. For more than 15 years he has
been working as a software architect and consultant in
various areas of PC-based computing. As a technical
author he has published two books for Addison-Wesley (in
German) and several articles in German and English
publications. Documentation has always been an important part
of his work and his favorite topic of research and
experimental programming.

Greg Stein

Greg Stein is
an engineering manager at Google, where he manages the Blogger development team. Outside
of work, he is the current Chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, and
spends a lot of time with Subversion, WebDAV, and Python projects. Previously, Greg worked as a
director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project
and releases of CollabNet's SourceCast product. Prior to
that, Greg worked at Microsoft on the commerce server
and site server products.

Christian Stocker

Christian Stocker is one of the developers of the XML
extensions in PHP. He's further author of the PHP book
"PHP de Luxe" (in german) and CEO of Bitflux GmbH, a
web developement company based in Zurich.

Malte Stretz

Malte Stretz lives
and works as a freelance system administrator in
Hamburg, Germany. He studies Computer Engineering at the
University of Applied Sciences Wedel. In the past years he
has contributed to several Open Source projects,
especially everything email-related seems to create a high
force of attraction. Since his first contribution in 2002
he focussed on the SpamAssassin project (or the project on him)
of which he is a member of the PMC today.

Sander Temme

Sander Temme is an Enterprise Solutions Engineer for a
security company whose clients include Fortune 500
companies, financial services companies and government
agencies. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation
and is active in the httpd, Infrastructure and Gump
projects. Sander is owned by Murphy, the wonder cat.

Mads Toftum

Mads Toftum is an independent consultant with more
than eight years of experience in various ISP jobs.
Previous projects include designing and developing HA www
hosting in a shared unix/NT environment and more than two
years building a commercial CA. In his spare time he is
a committer on the httpd-docs project, developing
payment software and actively helping users in #apache
(freenode) and on the mod-ssl mailing list.

Mladen Turk

Mladen Turk is a Developer and Consultant for Red Hat
Inc., where he is responsible for the native Java
integration. He is a long time commiter for Apache Tomcat,
Apache Httpd and Apache Portable Runtime projects.

Michael Wechner

Michael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original
creator of Lenya, a CMS based on Cocoon. Before entering the world of open source
software he studied mathematical physics at ETH and was
doing three years of basic research on computer
simulations of dendritic growth. He co-founded OSCOM and also spends a lot of time
with other Open Source Content Management Systems.

Christian Wenz

Christian Wenz is author, trainer and consultant with
focus on web programming. He is author or co-author of
over four dozen books, among them several titles on
PHP, most recently the PHP Phrasebook and JavaScript
Phrasebook (both Sams Publishing). Christian regularly
writes for renowned IT magazines and speaks at developer
conferences around the globe. He maintains or co-maintains
several PEAR packages and is co-author of the PHP 5
Zend certification and founding principial at the PHP
Security Consortium.

Matthias Wessendorf

Matthias Wessendorf is a software developer at
Oracle. He currently works on ADF Faces, which is an
AJAX-based JSF component suite. Matthias also contributes to
the OpenSource community, mainly Apache MyFaces and
Apache Trinidad. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a
CMS-Developer at Pironet, where he was building a
next-generation CMS, using UI technologies like XUL and AJAX.

Jan Wildeboer

A long-time programmer and watcher of the howabouts of
the IT-market. Former osCommerce Core Developer, now
involved heavily in the lobbying efforts against
software patents in europe. Member of FFII. Jan organised
several demonstrations (Karlsruhe, Munich), represents FFII
at conferences throughout europe.

Carsten Ziegeler

Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer for JEE and
portal applications at Day Software. He is a member of the
Apache Software Foundation and is participating in
several open source projects for more than ten years.
Carsten is a member of the Cocoon and the Portals PMC and is
playing a major role in the development of the Apache
Cocoon project.

Dr. Horst Zuse

Horst Zuse was born on November 17, 1945. He received
the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the
Technische Universität in 1973 and the Ph.D. degree in
computer science from the Technische Universität of
Berlin in 1985. Since 1975 he is a senior research
scientist with the Technische Universität Berlin. His research
interests are information retrieval systems, software
engineering, software metrics and the measurement the
quality of software during the software life-cycle.